Race Notes - Verstappen wins at Red Bull Ring

Max Verstappen won the Austrian Grand Prix in his Red Bull-Renault by 1.506 seconds over a charging Kimi Raikkonen in the Ferrari in second place. Sebastian Vettel finished third, 3.181s behind the winner.

The win is Verstappen’s fourth career victory. Vettel retakes the lead of the drivers championship by 1 point, while Ferrari now leads the constuctors championship by 10 points.

Romain Grosjean (1 lap) in the Haas-Ferrari finished fourth, followed by his team mate Kevin Magnussen in fifth, Esteban Ocon in the Force India-Mercedes was sixth, his team mate Sergio Perez was seventh, Fernando Alonso in the McLaren-Renault was eighth, Charles Leclerc in the Sauber-Ferrari was ninth and his team mate Marcus Ericsson finished in the final points position in tenth place.

Before the start Leclerc has a five-spot grid penalty for a gearbox change. Hartley will start from the back with a power unit change. Vettel penalised three postions at the start for balking Sainz yesterday. Also, Alonso will start from the pitlane.

All drivers expecting a one stop race, Mercedes and Red Bull on supersoft tyres at the start, the rest of the top ten on ultrasoft tyres.

The temperatures are 10 degrees hotter than the rest of the weekend.

At 10 after the hour, the grid cleared and the field set off - the lights went off and the race started with Bottas on pole, Raikkonen came down the middle of the Mercedes, Bottas gets squeezed out with Hamilton taking the lead from Raikkonen.

Further on in the lap Raikkonen goes wide, and Verstappen takes second, but Bottas gets the jump and reclaims second place.